357Implementation of the National Curriculum in schools
(1)In relation to any maintained school and any school year—
(a)the local education authority and the governing body shall exercise their functions with a view to securing, and
(b)the head teacher shall secure,
that the National Curriculum as subsisting at the beginning of that year is implemented.
(2)In relation to any time before the beginning of the school year following the establishment of the National Curriculum so far as relating to a particular subject and a particular key stage, subsection (1) shall have effect as if the Curriculum required that subject to be taught for a reasonable time during that stage.